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Don’t mind the anti-ai votes - people are frustrated af. Your p2p sharing mindset are great, thank you !

A few ideas from the top of my head: Git service ?: Radicle is a p2p distributed Git service. You can seed your fave projects.

Deeper search ?: Yacy is a mature/advanced distributed p2p search engine, but I don’t know how it compares to mwmble.

[AIT] (AI topic, tag rule for this sub) Inference service ?: AIhorde is a distributed p2p inference network where you can help out with a smaller machine/model and draw on the network when you need large models. Works with pics/txt. Not sure how its going though.

…Oh, and perhaps skip Claude - Anthropic et al. are Fscist Ucks, and for 90% of your projects, you get 90% the same quality for 90% reduced price elsewhere (claimed on a ‘trust me bro’ basis ;-) ). aihorde sounds like something for you and its self-hosted.

https://mwmbl.org/ https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl

“Mwmbl is a non-profit, open source search engine where the community determines the rankings. We aim to be a replacement for commercial search engines such as Google and Bing. We have our own index powered by our community - while the index itself is centralised, the crawling is distributed…”

Damn, are we watching live growth of digital Fascist cancer here ? We all get spammed with this worthless, non-special OS in every information outlet, YT, SN’s and other for-profit junk outlets. People are getting paid to keep posting about it everywhere.

Pretty disgusting to see how rich Pschos think and act, and pretty disheartening to see our ‘non-enshittified’ world be enshittified in front of our eyes! Enshittification = Capitalization.

Boycott Omarchy by all means necessary, and help not spreading this Capitalist/Fascist cancer project anywhere.

USB is not good as its a huge bottleneck, and most external accelerators are (was?) passive without any ram onboard. Google Coral was/is ‘passive’ in that it resends all data all the time over the interface - Npu<->system ram.

I were going to recommend these: https://shop.geniatech.com/product/m2-ai-inference-acceleration-module/

40tops, ARM + Npu + 16gb ddr4 - a whole little Inference computer on a NVME interface. Kinara (Ara240) is a homegrown Chinese chip. While they are usually selling b2b, you can ask anyway. YMMW atmo. Also note that some NPU’s are less efficient at llm’s vs vision.

…but I see that they also rose almost 4* in price since I asked for, and were offered the price of 179$ ~7M ago, which is already a long time in this space. Not sure how the current ~650$ stacks up to the rest of the offers out there at the moment, but these small active AI systems on NVME are a great way of upgrading a piss-old server, enhance a new cheap 4-8port NVME mini-NAS or similar, and there’s no clear bottleneck in the interface.

Look for something like this instead of Nvidia Coral and other ‘passive’ sticks, that are all - imho - overpriced/underperforming.

I agree, but we need to update our elite-destroying tools a notch …or two.

trust me enough to come to the right conclusion on my own.

The whole western information sphere, and most people are already mind-colonized, by attitudes like this. Any uncertainty in facts is claimed as ‘Conspiracy thinking’ and boxed in with stories of Aliens and shit - just to make it embarrassing to believe in. It’s a real playbook from the elite.

The US elites are constantly manipulating what ‘facts’ is, and muddles/hides all evidence. They can prosper for centuries behind this ‘Hard facts only’ mental shield, where all the lesser deductive and abductive facts are being downplayed/ridiculed and ignored.

It IS a badge of honor not to have succumbed to US elites constant propaganda narrative, and as long as they DO seek the facts - as all real journalism should - I think it is quite okay to try and correlate all the other types of facts (inductive, deductive and abductive facts) into a coherent and likely picture that connects the dots and show everyone how this current mess came about and works.

Let critical investigative journalism explore and try to connect ALL the dots - as they are supposed to.

Academia is always one of the first compromised institutions: David Gibbs: How Intelligence Services Captured Academia & Journalism

I think it’ll get harder and harder to find ‘pure’ distros. For a while you can maybe rely on something similar to Gnu linux-libre kernel that removes proprietary blobs, or BSD, or Gnu Hurd kernels etc, but linux-libre is already a pain if you need certain hw drivers, and eventually an anti-ai kernel will become crippled even worse, and it will become too hard to keep track of what kernels/parts of kernels is AI assisted code or not.

In the future, more and more new features will be from ai assisted code, and pretty soon, the anti-ai kernel will lose out to ai-assisted kernels in features, speed and soon stability (bug-finding etc).

The same goes for the rest of the distros that tries to avoid ai-assisted tools and code, and you/others will imho get completely swamped by this transformation. In fact, you will most certainly need an agent to keep constant track of this development.

I’m okay with AI, but I kind of feel for those trying to avoid it. Its hard enough just to avoid proprietary crap, and to me, avoiding ai-assists, is an even bigger mountain to climb. I do wish you all best of luck on that journey.

Ps. There ARE fully open models trained on fully libre with open libre data-sets, and for you - ethical data oriented - you could/should? probably accept that ‘non-pure’ situation, and use such an open llm to either maintain an ethical distro, or keep unethical ai-assist as low as you can get away with, for as long as you can.

Wondered about the ‘childish’ choice of underpants:

“Citizen scientists enable large-scale research. The “Proof by Underpants” project demonstrates the potential of citizen science for research. Without the help of the many volunteers, a study of this scale across 1,000 sites would not have been possible. […] The exceptionally high level of participation is also reflected in the authorship: Around 240 citizen scientists are listed as co-authors of the publication.”

“The project was launched under the title “Proof by underpants,” and the extent of decomposition was termed the “Underpants Index” (UI).”

I guess the ‘exceptional participation’ was a small psychological study in it self. Seemed to work beautifully at least…

study

I would’ve said it was long gone settled that any memory gets ‘contaminated’ by the local intrinsic/extrinsic environment we are in. In other words; we always tweak all memories every time we ‘read’ them.

To my knowledge there is no ‘static’ memory anywhere in our dynamic brain, and that knowledge have just been updated.

We need some ‘nastyness’ from nature unless we want to become sick otherwise… ‘clean’ isn’t always a good thing unless we have open wounds, or the contaminant is particularly aggressive. Our whole body has evolved in raw nature, so we need a balance where we avoid the most dangerous, and allow everything else - to some extent.

“However, they cautioned that the results were based on a single trial day at each site and that some participants reported swimming elsewhere during the study period.”

So… bullocks with standard ‘the guardian’ fear-mongering, sensationalism, and lacking journalism ?

“stillOS takes the GNOME desktop and configures it like Windows out of the box.”

Seem to be the only thing that makes it ‘special’ ? Not sure that is unique really, but if it makes some users happy…

“MLB only checks your location at the moment a stream starts.”

This is/was what Pandora.com did, and the solution was to run a small proxy that directed the exact login url through Tor with a Merican endpoint while stream was normal, but you can just select an EU/UK endpoint instead.

I used a Tor proxy - privoxy, I think - from the openwrt package repo, but others exist, and for other platforms…

‘$1 HTML’

Why tf do US/western kids always think its okay to monetise everything they touch !? Just make something that are free because it doesn’t cost you anything, because it was fun, or because you want to share with others, ffs ! This is the same annoying ideological mindset as new game-programming kids that have setup ad-servings in their games before they have a gameplay, assets or any other working code.

You managed to enshittify your entire ‘fun’ project before it was even released. I think that is a horrible, childish, capitalist mindset/project, and I don’t think sharing/open-source people would want to support your selfish for-profit kid-project - ‘fun’ or not…

One of the main reasons for the US tech lead the last decades, is that they could attract skilled scientists from around the world.

They already lost that ability, so please, US Epstein class: bar as many countries as you want ! Don’t hold back ! Go ALL the way !!

(Science will do great without you)

…hm, knee jerked a little, but you are right, it is a slow and difficult route. Perhaps sometimes also the most thorough, surprising, or rewarding way ? not sure tbh…

“Create an account to read the full story.” - Jeebus a shitshow post. We can’t even get the text version without enshittification :-(

Just for the record, Linux can do with less swap-space than the memory you have, also for hibernation. The system doesn’t write every byte to swap, and it uses compression. With 32gb I would choose a default swapsize of ~10gb max, but test it first as it depends on the specific content of your ram, and usage patterns oc. However, its an instant time-saver during boot.